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Arcana, vol. 1

by we hold hands and we jump

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Overture 1 03:51
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The Fool (Moments of Growth) 07:35
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Wind Spinning and shaking and smacking Murphy's Law Something'll happen Dam just burst Damned to be done Oh,damn Damning the plug on the carnage Spiderweb Lazy river train crash Dream I'm not sick Sleep in the wreck Ears fold in I just hear cheering at the dawn of the fall The stink of progress Person, personal It's personal Moments of growth Maybe the best I've been ain't worth saving I just don't know I'll starve Sleep here as long as I have to Vicious tank Turn gray and opaque What I can't breathe Lulls me to sleep Your ears fold in You're just squeaking when it all starts to grow (Grow) These moments of growth (Grow) It's only natural, grow, grow Moments of growth (Grow) Maybe the best I've been ain't worth saving I don't know Blame the folly of man Spot a smile in the compost Remember not as I am And not as I was Remember my breathing on these tracks (*breath*) Grow Life and death in a dance of poppy petals Grow, grow Rivers flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes Grow, grow Life and death in a dance of poppy petals Grow, grow Rivers flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes Say it, earthquakes volcanoes Ears fold back I'm cheering when the grass starts to grow
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The Magician (Child of God) 06:12
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Like the sign of a superhero Emblem on the sky I'll become a symbol A martyr, if you will (Will)ing my own path through the weeds Keep you close to me Leading you away These choices I make for your sake Up up and away I call down to the rattlesnakes It's a sound my blood is making A capillary yell Messages in binary roll over one another Trying to read where my new path leads I don't wanna wait and see Vision of a skull comes screaming It's the time of year the bugs start breeding I can play tough Run alive with the best of them I can play tough But you're so nice, you're so nice, you're so nice ...the rattlesnakes. I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life away, my life, giving my life Almost make it big a few times Almost come real close Lesser men have risked their lives For mere chances of odds like those Well, I can always count on thoughts of home To push me where I'm going To keep part of me where I'm from Becoming Boku ga, ore wa An adult, every day, an assault From somewhere new, somersault Arrive at you For every child of God, there is a child underneath What have you become I'm sick of playing dumb It feels like a punch in the stomach (Stomach) roars, I'm hungry, I am more than that I've never had the choice All the good it does to focus on the noise In the spaces in my voice, and I know Yea, the rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes, rattlesnakes And I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life away I'm giving my life, giving my life, giving my life... They say cheaters never prosper But the good die young? And though it may be dangerous The path I take is clear, and this one bleeds Softly and true And my blood does too Grow another leg The boundary's gotta break someday ...up up and away Child of God, an adult Child lock, never knew, becoming you What it took, it's in a book, take a look Ani me ani be ani kukuryku You are strong, you are towering You are evil and you are scheming I'm a child when I'm near you You can't tell, but I fear you Jestem dziekiem boga, czy jestem dziekiem tylko Where you gonna be in ten years time? Some things you just won't know Where you gonna be in ten years time? Some things you'll never know Some thing you'll never know Never let your scars show Black weights Thick and distracting Gimme all that back pain Impressions stain Black weights Some things you'll never know Never let your scars show Never
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The High Priestess (Widow's Waltz) 05:48
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Storm calling out to it Late husband’s memory, this fur coat a gift And you’re making the call collect It was a night just like this one, just like this See, if anything happens to me Before we meet again, it’s for the best And I say what I have to say Say what I want to say I’m running amok, I am running in traffic That sounds like my cue to turn red Flashes of heat come and go in the wind It’s the ringing, the voice in my head All these sons and their mothers aligned All in rows, and the tallest holds smallest, all is well, and now mine Steps to the plate Bats a home run And sits on the base, like a dunce All along I’ve been searching All along I’ve been looking for a cure, oh All the while I’ve wanted someone who can hear me, the Whole block lined up to hear the antidote You were a sight to see Living so freely and just twenty-three How many hundreds now And you don’t even write them down Down in the shadows I drift as a spirit I drift as you surely must do You remind me of myself when I was your age Myself before I met you, you All along I’ve been searching All along I’ve been waiting for a cure to come out I’ve been waiting I’ve been waiting so long that I can’t remember what for I didn’t just call to say hi And it shows, when the loudness turns quiet, my voice quivers, and I Hold my hands to my face Storm collects its debt And I’m soaking wet, so’s the whole place All along, I've been searching All along, I've been searching All along All along All along, you’ve been with me Every day, you’ve been waiting 'til you met me Yeah, all you do must be for my sake, for me When I pass, you won’t remember me.
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The Empress (Pillar of Light) 07:30
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Biting down for the weak and hungry Oh, bite down the great modest stench of your shame Consulting my paintings Misunderstanding their grace In a flash I’m chained up in your past, I’m envisioning skeletons, chained up to cave walls Die singing brave songs Ends absolute Sins absolved Leave the money on the table Leave me here until I'm stable I will sleep the darkness back Stand unfettered as a pillar of light cracks I’m beholden to empathy I lack I’m beholden to empathy I lack ... Is it raining, I'm sure it must be Will it ever let up, will my promises keep Get fed up, get fucked up All by a fiction Paint your face a windowsill And no one knows a thing about you Tampering and tempering, now No one's gonna try and stop you Will too dry and heart a crowd Fingers tremble, sweating Groping the dark for a hand Some parts to be imagined And the rest just stay on in It's the One who never sparks That never feels the need to leap into the bonfire On your Deathbed just stargazing Back to resting, smoke billowing up from a burning tire Firey There I stand I boldly dance inside The confines of my thoughts I am motionless I am barren I'm at most an afterthought It’s a mountain with an illness Killing time face-down in the snow Learn to hate, the sound, of water Envy its great steady flow No one knows a thing about me Shapeshifting and making myself new No one’s caught a glimpse of me I move too fast for you For a time I am fine, I am good I know not what I do, but I feel like a hero Stay here, dream of staring at you It feels the way I do when I drift off and lose you in the view No one seems to even notice When a raging mob lays down its pitchforks Join hands right there in the street Several dozen bags of meat Several dozen names for me Several dozen names for me Star signs Align Day breaks I'm fine Star signs align My time is nigh
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The Emperor (White Elephant) 05:30
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Can you turn it off? Can you keep it hidden? Soft edge glow of the closet door Throwing off my rhythm Can you turn it off? I don't need to hear this Faces shaved in the lining of my skull In an instant Leaving me to rot Never listen to this Need you to promise me, baby I've seen what can't be unseen Seemingly This is not an untold story You've heard it a thousand times You measure everything in ratios to it But you've never read a line You're home for the first time Yeah, breathing in the sunshine Stealing from the day Sleeping through the night with a smile on your face Cry into the camera Burning all the tapes Do what you do for no one else, be unafraid Raise a storm inside my tent and wonder when the sun comes up Scream my name and pump my chest and mean it when I do Everything seems easy when you're up so high and late You're gonna make, gonna find, gonna sing, gonna form A soaring song Turn it off Keep it quiet Off I don't need to hear this Faces shaved in the lining of my skull In an instant Leaving me to rot In a tactical position It's a game An escape And I shouldn't have been playing Clouds in the distance taking on their new form Assembling, darkening Before I even set foot out the door And turn it off I need you to promise Can you turn it off? Oh, can you turn it off? Can you turn it off?
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The Hierophant (Treatment Resistant) 06:17
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I collapse, in my car This is why, this subtle trait Live my DNA Yeah, add up the contingencies Count my fingers and toes And I’m off by my own Count And I should understand why but I just Don’t Read my Magazines Fan my Information Stare at a blank, Sheet Oh, oh oh oh... Pull out a number, I don’t call it, I say nothing I’m keeping all the prizes for myself I can just stall, kill as much time as I like All night All right, I’m up to bat and I strike out again She says, It all comes down to the electric shock Putting all those thoughts in my head Making impossible promises Now I’m sleeping and eating, well, so I said When I do arrive I come to find I’m just too far gone for you to treat me I’ve been running into that A surprising amount now, lately It all comes down to the electric shock Putting all those thoughts in my head Making impossible promises Now I’m gonna try eating but I haven’t yet Oh, daylight comes so slowly Daylight saved The permanent efficacy of grace Blowing smoke in my face What’s it gonna take What's it gonna take to get me right I can dream wherever I like I can sleep wherever I like Skipping breakfast, skipping lunch and skipping dinner Tell me again Which panel to watch Which button to push And then the MRI machine begins to buzz Lecture me on my mistakes Do your excavation Dig around my ears and set me high Oh, when I back away, to my surprise Something clicks and flips a wire inside And I cry What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take Take to get me right What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take Take to get me right What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take Take to get me right What’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take to get me right To get me right Oh, oh She says it all comes down to the electric shock All those thoughts in your head Impossible promises So I said
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The Lovers (For Levi 2) 06:53
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You can control the sounds that you make You can throw out what makes you heavy It’s a bountiful harvest sprouting soon The world becomes easier to carry Give yourself some credit that you made it Made it up here On your bad wheel Your and your thematic little fable Getting ready Set the table You and your decision-making process Reconciling What you're finding You will be only that which you are You strip away That which holds you Yeah, the devil exists because we let him You’re afraid of commitment But it turns out your handcuffs aren’t even locked You will say all your prayers at bedtime And then you will raise hell You’ve got to strip down to fit in a new shell But you just can’t risk the vulnerability And (so/sew) you back up Retreating in a memory just before last fall And you imagine another way it ends You will grow so tall You won’t change at all And through earthquakes you will walk From volcanoes, molten rock Yes, you will grow, grow, grow Life and death, it’s all for show And you can burn and fade away You can have it all both ways and you can grow You will be only that which you are Strip away that That which holds you You never needed Revelations 地球の自転は減速する The world becomes easier to carry 世界は素晴らしく作られています 変わらない で You are only who you are You are all you are You feel at home now Anywhere you go now You’re getting old But never quite that old You’re lost in the options You’re lost in the sauce You don’t really know But you leave room to grow You feel at home now Anywhere you go now You don’t really know But you leave room to grow It won’t be hard To leave it all behind I can picture you, picture you In this light, in this light (For Levi.)

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Click on each track to see the card the song is based on!!

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Tarot are a mysterious set of cards likely originating in Egypt in the 14th century, and were used for playing games. They had a very familiar format - four suits, each with numbered cards (from one, or "ace", until ten) and four face cards, called Queen, King, Knight, and Page. All of these cards collectively were known as the Minor Arcana and, as you may know, they evolved into what we now call "playing cards". Each had its own unique and mysterious artwork.

Beyond the numbered cards and face cards, there were 22 other cards in a Tarot deck. These cards each had specific names, like The Fool, The Magician, Death, Strength, and The World. These cards, called the Major Arcana, are laden with extremely thick and bizarre occult imagery. The meanings of these images are still debated to this day by witches and scholars alike, and the magical power of these cards gives them purpose as a powerful means of fortune-telling, their primary use today.

The Major Arcana are believed to tell a story of the universal human experience, starting from birth and ending with either spiritual death or enlightenment. The cards represent the people, the events, the feelings, the physical struggles and the spiritual resolutions that every human must endure and learn from, in order to reach that ultimate edification. This story is often called the Journey of the Fool.

The Fool takes his first step, head held high. He neither knows nor cares about the cruel world laid before him. What does the card tell you? Does it show you optimism and wonder? Or, perhaps, you see a bitter, dramatic irony? Ultimately, the cards have no power without human interpretation. Are they merely a gateway to our subconscious mind, or is there truly magic in these words and images?

This is the first in a four album concept series. Please, consider buying a download or a CD to support my continued music-making. If you do, please let me know your feedback. Thank you guys, all of you, so, so, so, so, much.

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released July 1, 2019

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Surprising no one, the artist behind this music is a trans woman now. This project may be dead and gone, but she continues to write music with a new band called "Sherry CD-ROM".

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